Jay Parini Quotes

As with all great works of literature, 'Of Mice and Men' moves with the inexorability of a huge river, and it pours itself, exhausts itself, in the sea of our unconscious. Having read it, we carry the book inside us forever.

Jay Parini

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: April 2, 1948

Topics

SeaGreatMenRiverBookLiterature

Anyone who knows me will attest that at any time during the day, you are most likely to find me picking tayberries, 'deadheading' peppermint, or succession-planting shallots. There is almost nothing, really, that I would rather do.

Andrew Weil

TimeDayMeYouFindNothing

I'll spend whatever it takes to get my message out and to be competitive with these career politicians. I'm not going to take a penny of special interest money.

Jeff Greene

MoneyPennyCareerSpecialWhatever

My sister made certain choices about the life she wanted. Those choices include a steady job, a husband and children. But balance and stability come at a cost. It is harder for her to be spontaneous. It is harder to just up and leave.

Simon Sinek

LifeChildrenJobBalanceSister

I consider myself an artist, which is, like, the most played term, but I believe it.

Travis Scott

MyselfBelieveArtistI BelieveLike

Life is too short to be miserable.

Rita Mae Brown

LifeLife Is Too ShortShortToo

I think that you are what you speak a lot of times, and there's power in the tongue. I feel sorry for the people who always have something negative to say. If something happens bad in my day, I don't tweet about it - I pray about it, or talk to my husband about it or my mother about it, and get it off of me and move on.

Monica

MotherPowerDayPeopleMeNegative

In a play, you can adjust your performance to audience reaction, but in a film, it's like you're trapped in a bad dream watching yourself act, and you're in the audience.

Jonathan Groff

YourselfPerformanceYouBadPlay

My father was a part of that generation, and my mother, too - the late-'30s, early-'40s big-band generation. Frank Sinatra, Art Blakey, Gene Krupa, Billie Holiday - all that stuff was in my background.

Donovan

FatherMotherArtGenerationHoliday

The Middle East is more angry than ever. I'm afraid that the sort of deceit on the route to war was linked to the lack of preparation for afterwards and the chaos and suffering that continuous - so it won't go away will it?

Clare Short

AngryWarPreparationSufferingGo

I always like to talk about how important space is. Art is in the spaces. Anybody can sing a note; it takes an artist to sing the spaces. Anybody can paint a brushstroke; it takes an artist to know when not to put the brushstroke.

Brian Stokes Mitchell

ArtSpaceArtistKnowImportant

The development of exponential technologies like new biotech and AI hint at a larger trend - one in which humanity can shift from a world of constraints to one in which we think with a long-term purpose where sustainable food production, housing, and fresh water is available for all.

Arvind Gupta

WaterFoodPurposeWorldThinkNew

I was Al Gore's campaign chairman in 2000, when he won a half-million more votes than George W. Bush but lost the presidency.

William M. Daley

LostMorePresidencyThanHeVotes

Copyright © 2024 QuotesDict Quote by Jay Parini